Automated personalized picture frame

Abstract

A digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for use as a Mobile Positional Social Media (MPSM) device for displaying social media pictures from a user's social media account or her or his community members' social media accounts. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer, and a viewer profile automatically determined from the identity of the viewer. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 455,297, filed on 8 Aug. 2014, which is a continuation-in-part of each of: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 051,071, filed on 10 Oct. 2013, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 051,089, filed on 10 Oct. 2013. The co-pending parent applications are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety and are made a part hereof, including but not limited to those portions which specifically appear hereinafter.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates generally to a digital picture frame and, more particularly, to a digital picture frame that is a Mobile Positional Social Media (MPSM) output device that automatically provides personalized photo viewing in automated combination with a MPSM account.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Existing digital picture frames synchronize with popular social media platforms, such as Facebook™ and Instagram™,...

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Benefits of technology

[0014]The invention can include the incorporation or creation of user communities and sub-communities, with such communities and sub-communities sharing information. Embodiments of the invention include automatically identifying a user's location and activity, and desirably notifying that user's community of that user's location, as well as sharing relevant photos from the user's community to the digital picture frame. Particular embodiments of this invention provide one or more additional community functionalities including, without limitation, automatically identifying a user's activity and notifying that user's community of that user's activity, commenting on user activity and location report by user or community—with multiple and multimedia comments supported, supporting the “liking” of user activity by the community, supporting the user tagging of location, activity, or the pairing of location and identity—tagging can be textual or via any multimedia means, correlating the individual user's activity with the ongoing activity of others within the community, and / or correlating the individual user's activity with the past activities of others within the community, all useful in generating user profiles and tagging photos for automated display on the digital picture frame of this invention.

[0015]One embodiment of this invention provides a method of and system for automated determining of locations and / or activities of a user participating in a social networking service. The method is executed by a MPSM computer system and automatically determines a positional destination of a user, automatically deduces as user information a location type and / or user activity of the positional destination, and automatically shares the user information as instructed in the social networking service. Deducing the user information is based upon context information about the positional destination, desirably with minimal or no input by the user. The context can include, without limitation, time-dependent information, past and / or current associated user information, past user and / or community information about the location, and / or third party information. The context can be used to at least reduce location types and / or user activities, for example, as a function of the past location type and / or user activity of the positional destination for a given time period.

Problems solved by technology

However, multiple steps may be required for such synchronization.

These manual steps can be difficult to do if one wants to change to a different social media account, such as while entertaining guests.

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